2023 John and Gertrude Wister Award

Celebrate Daffodils with the 2023 John and Gertrude Wister Award!

The 2023 Wister Award is presented to ‘Delibes’, this stunning large-cupped daffodil is a showstopper in the garden. Narcissus ‘Delibes’ is a handsome cultivar that was registered prior to 1950, hybridized by F. Rijnveld and Sons from the Netherlands, and is included in the ADS Classics Daffodils special class. This early to mid-season blooming daffodil has broad greenish-yellow perianth segments with a shallow bowl-shaped corona that is lightly ribbed with vivid yellow shading to orange at the mouth that is frilled. See past outstanding garden daffodils that have been awarded the Wister Award on The John and Gertrude Wister Award page of our website.